Gerhard Gudergan

Gerhard Gudergan

Gerhard Gudergan is the deputy managing director at FIR Institute for Industrial

Management at RWTH Aachen University in Germany. He is a renowned researcher with

over 20 years of experience in the fields of service management, business transformation

and digital leadership. Besides his research, Gudergan translates his entrepreneurial mindset

into numerous spin-offs. Currently his focus is on the Metropolitan Cities Initiative, as the

acting head of this latest project. The vision is to use urban innovation to transform the fifth

largest metropolitan region in Europe — Rhine-Ruhr — into the most livable metropolitan

area possible.